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I'm quite sure the digital ID thing is bound to a person based on biometric data like a fingerprint or irisscan, or a rfid-like key provided by the government. Problem is that it requires a "compromised" computer because the owner could...

hedwards When you are watching a stage play from the audience and the play is set in, say, an apartment, you'll see the back wall of the apartment, the left wall and the right wall. Those are three walls. The missing fourth wall is the one...

All this speculation without (so far as I can see) anyone posting a link to the Act - https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1043/2025. The wording is clear, not ambiguous, and laws don't work by what people think they mean but by what judges determine...

I haven't tried it inside of a jail, but it looks like it would: (I haven't noticed any real difference in terms of what's mountable via both methods, just whether or not the jail knows about it) # mkdir -p foo/bar/baz # mkdir -p...

Which of course shows the obvious flaw. Children will just lie about their age and although the law requires the developer to do something about that if they become aware of it, it's not clear how an app could work that out.

Which of course shows the obvious flaw. Children will just lie about their age and although the law requires the developer to do something about that if they become aware of it, it's not clear how an app could work that out.

personally, we charge $400 an hour for reviewing AI generated code, but we will review human-written makefiles for free. our recommendation is to delete the slop makefile, read the documentation on Make (man make...

Windows does it (I used to select Philippines since it had Cortana region-disabled :p)

All this speculation without (so far as I can see) anyone posting a link to the Act - https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1043/2025. The wording is clear, not ambiguous, and laws don't work by what people think they mean but by what judges determine...

All this speculation without (so far as I can see) anyone posting a link to the Act - https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1043/2025. The wording is clear, not ambiguous, and laws don't work by what people think they mean but by what judges determine...

Is it? It's been a while since I actually did that, but wasn't the purpose of that getting to single user mode if for some reason you want to do so before/without rebooting? It seems sensible enough to me that it would default to the thing that's...

personally, we charge $400 an hour for reviewing AI generated code, but we will review human-written makefiles for free. our recommendation is to delete the slop makefile, read the documentation on Make (man make...

Presumably, but now that I think about it, I thought the 4th wall was the one that separates the press (4th estate) from the reader. As in most of the time you're not really supposed to be consciously aware of the creator of the news article, TV...

Now I got it. Thanks for clearing this up.

Enjoyed all that as well but I'm particularly enjoying "One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics" although I'm only about halfway through - it's long. :) (Edit: I did finish it, btw: very good!)

Thank you for the weekly dose of interesting news. I read in full EricBSD's post about XLibre and the future of GhostBSD and found it both a very good read and very illuminating. I recommend reading it to anyone interested in the BSD world. I...

AlfredoLlaquet I entered the entertainment world in 1971 on the technical side. My son is a professional actor and I helped him with his acclaimed theatre company in Chicago for 10 years. I have credits in three movies on IMDB. I kinda know stuff.

AlfredoLlaquet I entered the entertainment world in 1971 on the technical side. My son is a professional actor and I helped him with his acclaimed theatre company in Chicago for 10 years. I have credits in three movies on IMDB. I kinda know stuff.

Don't forget that you have many examples in /usr/src, /usr/share/mk and in ports.

I heard the OS option was to allow apps to query it (maybe the OS has to note it somewhere like Windows registry, but the OS itself doesn't have to do anything with the age nor collect as telemetry?)

That's understandable, I take it that the logs didn't indicate the issue. I'm not sure that it solves the problem, but IIRC, when that sort of thing happens I'll make sure that the permissions ownership is correct with the correct permissions and...

I updated a MySQL 8.0.45 instance to MySQL 8.4.8 - along the way, I encountered the "'mysql_native_password’ is not loaded" situation. I was able to follow my own blog post to get the non-root passwords updated. However, I still can't get the...

I'm running 10.11.5 in a FreeBSD Jail just fine. It can get kind of annoying in terms of having to have the files named in a specific way that's listed on the website for best use. And while it does have a setting in the manage libraries for real...

To have any sort of hope of working reliably, it has to be in the OS, and probably firmware of the computer really. If it were just at the browser level, it wouldn't be able to influence any other software that could be used to access materials.

Dear rafael_grether : can you give me one prosody configure file ? i want to build a prosody xmpp server. thanks.

I don't think any LLM had enough training in BSD make. Not enough example code out there.

Actual scripting with language like most scripts on https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/useful-scripts.737/ I just have programs execute in a certain order with flags :p #!/bin/sh '/usr/sbin/service' 'nginx' stop '/usr/local/bin/certbot'...

Force everyone to dial-up speeds: It'll enforce efficient browsing habits :cool:

Arguably, 21 is one of the worst ages to let people start drinking. They're old enough to no longer have parental supervision for anything, but still a few years away from being fully developed.

Cause they can't be trusted to act responsibly which always made me question why they are allowed to vote before then. At my restaurants, I would never hire anyone under 18 and preferred they be in college. I noticed a lot of growing up between...

18 year olds cannot rent a car. There is a reason for this

In many states, you cannot drink till you are 21. However, you can join the army at least 3 years before that. I don't know minimum enlistment age, but you were ready to be drafted once you hit 18.

Rent a car online?

The part that is beyond boiling is the steam you see in the air. The water you poured into your cup was not above the boiling (steaming) point. And once the water hit your cup, it was far below 212F

I have spent many hours searching for a direct email address to confirm that demanding payment of an IRS Tax fee is not legal but have not found one so far. When I write to the company they say it is perfectly legal and all their customers are...

In your .xprofile, LANG variable is not needed, locale is defined in your AccountsService profile.

Reyn Ouwehand View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTSUR3RHh9M&list=RDPTSUR3RHh9M&start_radio=1

Since your printer understands PCL 3, a CUPS + Ghostscript combo is all you need. Ghostscript will act as a rendering engine, converting the document into printer-readable code without any additional HP software. P.S. My HP1320 works fine without...

The part that is beyond boiling is the steam you see in the air. The water you poured into your cup was not above the boiling (steaming) point. And once the water hit your cup, it was far below 212F

The PAM LightDM file needs to have support of gnome-keyring (as specified in comment above). It is mandatory!

As you have Xfce installed, you should use the AccountsService DBus service. 1. touch $(id -un) Your new file should look like this: [User] Language=en_US.UTF-8 Session=xfce XSession=xfce SystemAccount=false Value of Session and XSession is...

I wasn't actually talking about porn. I was talking about creating hysteria to deal with fears, instead of solving problems. For that porn was a good example. Don't get me wrong, I neither applaude the masses of free porn we have since the WWW...

I've poured boiling water into foam ramen containers no problem :p

Just a theory. One I hope is unlikely. There's a fuss over Google further restricting developer access to Android. Could this be an arguement by Google (or Apple or Microsoft) to further restrict to apps outside their control? Ignore me, I'll...

I have a much better and free solution. Better parenting. Forbid your child from accessing the things this is attempting to protect them from. Things like Reddit.

Not in a coffee machine. At the boiling point it turns to steam. Then it would also melt the coffee maker plastic parts and the cup it's poured into.

I will try using it instead of doas, which is specific to FreeBSD, without using ports. I really like this.

I've been using mdo for a month now. It does all I need as a simpler sudo replacement. Realizing this, I just ran $ mdo pkg remove sudo

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I once had a demo of a compiler which hat the limitation of liking long weekends - "This compiler will not work on mondays" it said. And what happend to "Use/install at your own risk" because the FreeBSD project is not the manufacturer, they are...